On Tuesday’s episode of Man, We’re Really Going to Spend Time Talking about This, Aren’t We, New York representative Eliot Engel announced that he will not position himself along the receiving aisle to shake the president’s hand as he enters the House chamber Tuesday night for a speech to Congress. It will mark the first time in 29 years Engel has not followed his personal custom, during which time Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed disdain for handshakes, anyway.

In The Art of the Comeback, published in 1997, he called the practice a cultural liability.

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